That film landed the Norwegian two Oscar nominations and won then-newcomer Renate Reinsve the best actress award at Cannes in 2021. Many critics said it also should have won the Palme d'Or top prize.

Cannes Announces Winners of its Prestigious Awards. Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value and Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an ...

Director Joachim Trier, who won the Grand Prix second prize at the Cannes film festival Saturday, makes Scandinavian movies ...

Falling trees, condor men, and what was reportedly some actual, literal sabotage to the local power grid couldn’t stop it ...

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival concludes today with the Closing Ceremony and presentation of the coveted award, the Palme d’Or, which was awarded to Jafar Panahi f ...

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival might be far removed from the 2026 Academy Awards... far, far removed. However, as early as it is to think about what the 2026 Oscars will look like, Cannes has become a ...

The new Spike Lee joint, an inventive Brazilian political thriller and a Scandinavian family drama spiked with humor were ...

Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s revenge thriller “It Was Just an Accident” has won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes ...

May 24 (UPI) -- Jafar Panahi's Un Simple Accident won the Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. Joachim Trier's ...

This year's Cannes Film Festival is over, ending in dramatic fashion with a power outage ahead of the closing ceremony that ...

Saboteurs cut the power on the festival's final day, but it came on in time for Panahi's electrifying win for "It Was Just an Accident." ...

The film, “Un Simple Accident,” was directed by Jafar Panahi, a longtime festival favorite. The award capped a contest that ...